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Scientist.

Born in Winnipeg’s North End on 1 December , son of Alexander Israel Slotin () and Sonia Niaslovsky (?), he attended St. John’s Technical High School and the University of Manitoba, winning the gold medal in chemistry and physics and completing an MSc in He received his PhD in biochemistry from London University in He was also an amateur boxer.

Slotin became a research associate at the University of Chicago, working on an atom-smashing cyclotron.

Louis slot in biography definition Louis Alexander Slotin (/ ˈ s l oʊ t ɪ n / SLOHT-in; [1] 1 December – 30 May ) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's.

He began work in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhatten Project in Chicago in , and moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico in December He became an expert at hand-assembling the core of atomic bombs, and it was an accident during the process of assembly that lead to his death. In order to save his colleagues, he terminated a connection in a bomb core, and as a result exposed himself to a fatal dose of radiation.

He died at Sante Fe, New Mexico on 30 May and was buried in the Shaarey Zedek Cemetery.

A Winnipeg plaque and park is named in his honour.

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Slotin House ( Scotia Street, Winnipeg)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dr. Louis Slotin Memorial Park and Plaque (Luxton Avenue, Winnipeg)

The Accident by Dexter Masters ().

“Dr.

Louis Slotin and ‘The Invisible Killer’” by Martin Zeilig, The Beaver, Volume 75, Number 4 (August-September ), pages

Sources:

Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

“Dr. Louis Slotin dies from radiation effects,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 May , page 1.

“A.

I. Slotin, 64, prominent city cattleman, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 April , page

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press,

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

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